Actually, it was new last December. When I last visited the cemetery in November 2023, the building was finished, but it hadn’t been officially opened yet. That happened last year in December. Last weekend, I briefly visited it again, on … Continue reading →
Last weekend, I visited Valkenburg to hand over a gift of 9th Army secret maps and documents to the curator of the exhibition ‘Through Their Eyes’. I first visited the exhibit at Museum Valkenburg at the end of September. It … Continue reading →
On February 29th, I visited the WWII museums at Manhay and Diekirch with Yeomanry – the club of wartime vehicle enthousiasts. We went there by bus, so we had a lot of time to talk on the way about our … Continue reading →
These are photos of the Market Garden trip I made with my son in August. I didn’t get around to posting them yet, but here they are, all 219 of them! First you see photos from the Overloon war museum, … Continue reading →
The Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, also called the Airborne Cemetery, is a British war cemetery that mostly contains graves of airborne and glider troopers. They were mostly British, but also many Polish and some other nationalities enlisted in the British … Continue reading →
Here are some photos I made of my visit to the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek (Arnhem). Overall, I liked the museum, although its focus is purely on the British parachute and glider operations in the area, so don’t expect to … Continue reading →
I visited this museum in the same weekend as the Bastogne War Museum. The 101st Airborne Museum is more for the paratroopers enthusiasts and knowledgeable collectors. It is located in the former officers mess building of the Belgian Army, built … Continue reading →
In May I visited Bastogne for a weekend with my son. We revisited the Bastogne Historical Center which has been completely transformed into the Bastogne War Museum. It has been enlarged and the collection pieces have changed. Some of the … Continue reading →
These photos of a small German compass were sent to me by Nikolaas Ottevaere. The compass is 25mm wide and 8mm tall. That’s a bit large to have been an escape compass, but I recently stumbled upon a very similar … Continue reading →
These photos were sent to me by Lisa Sharik, deputy director of the Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin, TX. She read the article on all the different variations and thought she’s share this special one from the museum. It … Continue reading →